Biography
Isabel is a third-year PhD student specializing in British literature of the long eighteenth century and the transatlantic imaginary. Her research focuses on the entanglements of human and nonhuman worlds as they emerge in poetic and ecological thought. Her current work examines how tropical atmosphere operates as both a literal and symbolic medium of anticolonial revolution and registers the enduring legacies of transatlantic slavery and anthropogenic climate change in the poetry of William Gilbert, Wordsworth, and Shelley.
Isabel holds a BA in English from UC Davis and an MPhil in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies from the University of Cambridge.
